AT least eight women and one man have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran and may be executed at any time, the lawyers defending several of those sentenced said today
US forces shot dead the 17-year-old son and another relative of the governor of northern Iraq`s Salahuddin province in a raid today, local officials said
US President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki have agreed to set a "time horizon" for US troop withdrawals as part of a long-term security pact
LEBANON`S new telecommunications minister has accused Israel of bombarding Lebanese people with threatening phone calls, a day after a controversial prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah
FIVE Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel have arrived to a hero`s welcome in Lebanon, hours after Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized by its guerrillas two years ago
NATO said today it had abandoned an outpost in remote northeastern Afghanistan just days after it was stormed by militants, leaving nine US soldiers dead
ISRAEL`S cabinet gave the final go-ahead today for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah, despite Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying the Lebanese Shi`ite group did not fully keep its side of the bargain
INTERNATIONAL Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair cancelled what would have been his first trip to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip today because of a security threat, his spokeswoman said
